Re: Continuous Hurd cross-builds on Hydra

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 02:40:13PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Getting ???make dist??? to work was surprisingly tedious, presumably
> because the project has a long tradition of not publishing source
> releases.  ;-) There???s a series of patches at
> <https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/hydra-config/gnu/trunk/hurd/>.  Most
> of them should be obvious.  I can provide proper ChangeLog entries so
> that they can go in (I???ve already assigned copyright), and I???m of
> course open to discussions.

Please send them as a patch series to this list... Also, you might want
to put them in the patch tracker so they don't get lost. (Either
immediately; or if there is no new feedback for a while, but they
haven't been applied either.)

> Hydra can send email notifications when the status of a build changes
> (e.g., from ???succeeded??? to ???failed???.)  I can add whoever feels
> like receiving Hydra news.

Well, if it doesn't generate a lot of traffic, you could probably just
make it send that stuff to the list...

> [*] If you look carefully, there???s a small glitch: two glibcs,
> instead of one, are built; one is built with the old Hurd headers and
> is used only to build ???hurd-minimal??? (which contains only
> libihash). I think it can???t hurt, but it???s unpleasant to the eye.
> ;-)

What's the reason for this?

-antrik-